: On Horseback Through Asia Minor Volume 2 (of 2) by Burnaby Fred Adapter - Turkey Description and travel

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My host--A Russian servant--The Crimean war--How the Russian soldiers were beaten--My father the Tzar--I would sooner be hanged!--The civilized way of eating a dinner--Knives and forks of Circassian manufacture--The Caimacan's opinion of knives and forks--My host's wife--His mother--Your Queen likes riding--An Armenian lady inquiring about balls--The barracks--The appearance of Arabkir--The prison--The inmates--The troops--A nation of soldiers--If Allah wills it--Capital required 1

The Mohammedan school--The Governor--The Schoolmaster--His impertinence--An Armenian song--The Russians at Tiflis--Are the Russians so very degraded?--The Hodja, or Schoolmaster--He is put in prison--The fanatics amongst the Turks--A school required for Hodjas--Qualified teachers wanted--Do the Turks insult your religion?--Malattia--A cross tied to the tail of a dog--We want newspapers--Even they contradict each other--The streets are slippery--The precipices--Shephe--The Kurds--Few Zaptiehs in the province--Hara Bazar--The village of Ashoot--Arab horses--Deserters--The Usebashe--God is evidently on our side 11

Radford--His health--The farmer's house--The high elevation--My brother will look down the precipices--The Frat--The scenery--A caravan--How to pass it--The weather--Turks in Egin--A coracle--Beautiful fish--Sick soldiers--Twenty-four hours without food--Egin--The Caimacan--The Cadi--His story--Daniel--Samson--His riches, his 10,000 wives, all of them fat and lovely--His treasure-chests--The lovely daughters of the mountaineers--The officers died; the Pachas died; and last of all, Samson died--The fate of the Russians 22

Hasta Khan--The Kurds--Their summer depredations--Our Sultan ought to be Padishah in his own dominions--The English Consul--A story about the Kurds--The Delsin--Arresting the major--The major's dinner with the chief--Acknowledge the Padishah--A sore back--The mule which is offered in exchange--The pack-saddle--The Euphrates--Coal in the neighbourhood--Kemach--The Caimacan--Djerrid--A National Guard--A miniature Gibraltar--Turkoman horses--Numerous wells--One of the faithful 41

Kemach--Its population--Barley is very cheap--An English traveller--Conversation about the impending war--If we beat Russia, will England permit us to take back the Caucasus?--Yakoob Khan--The Poles to be freed--Germany to have the Baltic Provinces--What about the Crimea?--We ought to cripple Russia--The Floggers of Women--Crossing the Euphrates--Radford is poorly--Erzingan--The intendant of Issek Pacha--Pretty Armenian women--An intelligent Turk--Iron, silver, gold--Coal--Lead-mines worked by the Kurds--The peasantry and coal--The Government and the mines--A relation of the Pacha of Sivas--The old doctor--Firing a patient for gout 50

Erzingan--The Mutasarraf Pacha--Widdin--Russian official documents--Names of high functionaries--General Ignatieff--Hindostan--The Kurds will be excited to massacre the Armenians--The probable final result of the war--If Turkey were to join Russia--The boot manufactory--The shoemakers being drilled--The gaol--Coiners--A jealous woman in prison--The unfortunate shopkeeper 59

Russia's conduct in Servia--The Hodja--We have a great many troops--If the Circassians will rise--The Pacha--Raw cotton--The Mohammedan school--The Hodja's sum--Three jealous husbands--The mosque--Issek Pacha--A comparison between Mohammedan Imaums and Christian priests--Provisions--The old doctor--The road to Erzeroum--Want of sport--Soldiers frost-bitten 68

A conversation with the Pacha--The English Parliament opened--What will they say about Turkey?--Can the people at your Embassy speak Turkish?--The French are brave soldiers--The fortifications--The roads--The water supply--The posterns--Important military positions--A dinner with our Consul--He relates a story--A Kurdish robber--The Colonel--His young wife--How the Kurd wished to revenge himself--Many of the Kurds are in Russian pay 104

The weather--The number of troops in the town--Wood is very dear--Tezek--The shape of the town--Trade with Persia--Ismail Pacha's head servant--Have the Russians arrived?--No, Effendi, but the Pacha has hanged himself! that is all--The Pacha's wives--He was gay and handsome--The Consul's dragoman--An attack of dysentery--Starting for Van--Major-General Macintosh--His opinion about the Kurds--The Bazaar at Van--Fezzee Pacha--Kiepert's map--Erzeroum is very weak--Fezzee Pacha's opinion about the impending war--The curious Caves 114

The Turkish cemetery--Entering the cavern--The narrow passage--A branch tunnel--A candle went out--The ball of string--The Garden of Eden--The serpent--A dinner with the Engineer-general--Mashallah--The evil eye--A whole nation of Hodjas--You English are a marvellous nation--Some of our Pachas cannot write--This is a miracle--Start for Van--The postman--A caravan from Persia--The wives of the Persian merchant--How to balance a fat wife--Herteff--My host's wife--Stealing sugar 124

The Kurd--His bonnet--Mohammed is ill--Radford doctors him--The mustard plaster--The plaster is cold--Where has the Frank put the flames?--An old frost-bite--The two merchants--Bayazid--A Turkish lieutenant--A very dirty Christian--Crossing the Araxes--Kupri Kui--Yusueri--Deli Baba--Earthenware jars--How they are made--When the winter is over--Procrastination 134

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